Test 10 · ★ · Fionn's Fianna, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 24: a stra…

Fair play, what's the bit about small boy or idiot, was that a diss?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fair play · What happens: be · To what, where: bit, diss

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1056 «Fionn's Fianna, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 24: a strange lord arrives by sea and challenges the Fianna to a contest» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 play	amod
2	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 diss	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bit	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 bit	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bit	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 play	acl:relcl
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 boy	case
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boy	amod
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 idiot	cc
12	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boy	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 play	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 diss	cop
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 diss	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 diss	det
17	diss	diss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 diss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fair play	the bit				about small boy or idiot	tree rules
2	is a	past	Fair play	a diss					tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

No, it was just a friendly jibe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 jibe	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 jibe	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 jibe	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 jibe	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 jibe	det
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 jibe	amod
8	jibe	jibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a friendly jibe					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, Cael said Cona'n's talk made him think of one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Cona'n	Cona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 talk	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Cona'n	case
7	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	obj
10	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 made	xcomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 think	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Cael			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	past	Cona'n's talk	Cael		tree rules
3	think speech: other	infinitive	Cael not said here		of one	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	talk		Cona'n			nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Yes, he said it made him think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	obj
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	past	it	him = he	tree rules
3	think speech: other	infinitive	him = he not said here		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, Cael said Cona'n's talk made him think of a small boy or an idiot, so yeah

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Cona'n	Cona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 talk	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Cona'n	case
7	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	obj
10	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 made	xcomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 boy	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 boy	det
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 boy	amod
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 think	obl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 idiot	cc
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 idiot	det
17	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 boy	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 so	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	4 said	conj
20	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Cael			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	past	Cona'n's talk	Cael		tree rules
3	think speech: other	infinitive	Cael not said here		of a small boy or a idiot	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	talk		Cona'n			nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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